In all, the Lord answered prayer and confirmed the work of our hands with 63 podcasts<\/a> and 206 published articles<\/a>. At the same time, the Lord raised up friends and supporters to help this ministry financially. When we celebrated our two year birthday, you gave and made it possible for us to enter the new year with fuel in the tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, as a ministry led by pastors and professors, we are grateful for partners who help us bring these resources to you and to equip the church with evergreen content that helps you engage culture today. Truly, as we look back at 2024, we praise God for his faithfulness, and we enter 2025 with prayerful excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To that end, we invite you to join us for the journey. Over the next twelve months, as the Lord allows, we will take up these twelve themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Already, we have authors and articles lined up for the first four months, along with scattered articles throughout the rest of the year. If you are interested in submitting something or if you have an article \/ podcast idea for a given month, let us know. We love getting feedback from our readers \/ listeners, and your comments help us gauge if, how, and where our work is hitting the mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to online content, we have also enjoyed meeting many of you at various events throughout the last year. And in 2025, some of the Christ Over All team plans to be at the Founders National Conference<\/a> (January in Florida), the Kings Domain<\/a> Conference (May in Cincinnati), G3 National Conference<\/a> (September in Atlanta), ETS<\/a> (November in Boston), and one other soon-to-be announced pastor\u2019s workshop at Occoquan Bible Church<\/a> (in Northern Virginia in July). Long story short, as much we want to encourage you remotely, we are always delighted to meet like-minded brothers and sisters in person too. So, if you are at or near any of these events, please look us up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let me highlight what is coming next at Christ Over All<\/em>, however, after<\/em> tallying all pieces we published in December. Those articles on Handel\u2019s Messiah<\/em> are below (with the longform essays bolded).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In January, we are kicking off the year by returning to one of the most basic and important concepts in the Bible\u2014the Image of God. In Genesis 1:26 we read the words of God: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” And in next verse (Gen. 1:27), God says that he made them, male and female. Accordingly, in the first chapter of the Bible, we are presented with a fundamental truth about humanity\u2014and one that undergirds everything else in Scripture and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tragically, as our culture has abandoned its Christian heritage and denied God as creator of all things, the doctrine of humanity has suffered fiercely. Today, infants in the womb and octogenarians in the nursing home are equally in danger of being put to death through abortion and euthanasia, respectively. And in both cases the threat comes from not respecting the dignity of life conferred by being made in God\u2019s image. If God is lost, so is the image of God, and when the image of God is lost in humanity, then the intrinsic value of humanity is lost too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countless ethical problems arise when the doctrine of humanity is discarded. And this month, it is our aim to stress humanity\u2019s importance by way of rehabilitating the doctrine of the Imago Dei. <\/em>Indeed, half of our articles will address doctrinal matters: What is the image of God? What does it mean to be embodied? How does Chalcedon\u2019s Christology from 451 A.D. inform our theology of man? And how should we talk about human nature as male and female?<\/p>\n\n\n\n After establishing some theological foundations, we will tackle some of the thorny ethical issues of our day: What should Christians think about IVF (In Vitro Fertilization)? What is IVG (In Vitro Gametogenesis), and is it ethical? What about transhumanism or transgenderism? And should Christians be cremated, or only buried? And if buried, what role should churches play in providing cemeteries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you can see, the doctrine of humanity\u2014along with its cornerstone, the imago Dei<\/em>\u2014touch every part of society. And in January, we are going to help Christians think more \u201cChristianly\u201d about these subjects. I hope you will join us for the journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, if you have been helped by Christ Over All<\/em> in 2024 and would like to help us continue to bring evergreen resources to the Church in 2025, consider giving a one-time gift<\/a> as we start the new year. Consider it gas money. As we drive monthly conversations toward vital biblical, theological, and cultural themes, we are looking for cheerful givers to help put fuel in the tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Handel’s Messiah<\/i>: Singing Scripture’s Hallelujah<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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